7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you apostles for himself, that he may sift you as wheat.

For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock;

For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears:

There remains, therefore, a sabbath state for the people of God. For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us earnestly strive, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

"When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.

And not agreeing among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak to our fathers by Isaiah the prophet, saying: Go to this people and say, You shall surely hear, but you will not understand; and you shall surely see, but you will not perceive. For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should restore them to health.